Ada Ryan Gardens

Ada Ryan Gardens unearth the sentimental value that you can experience by simply walking through a park.

Featuring shady lawns and gardens, free BBQ’s and picnic facilities, bird aviaries, free tennis courts, beach volleyball, toilets, a playground and paved wheelchair- accessible paths. The Ada Ryan Gardens is linked to the Whyalla Foreshore with a walk way creating a large and lush recreational area.

Ada Ryan Gardens was the first major park established in Whyalla and named after the wife of the chairman of the then City Commission, Charles Ryan. The Ada Ryan gardens were the site of Whyalla’s first cemetery, which was moved in August 1918 to the current cemetery in Broadbent Terrace.